Not a "begging for money" thread which has gotten so many up in arms of late but if you want to get up in arms, that's fine with me.

But - I AM looking to raise funds for my trip back east, and hope people won't mind me doing a "here's what I've got to offer/would you like to buy" thread. I have been lucky enough to have another season living in the cabin on a nature preserve in upstate New York, and am currently in Joshua Tree.

I will start with items of climbing gear, and one photo lens I am looking to sell.

1) Wired Bliss Cams - Purple and Silver Colors
These cams have been placed only a few times each, never fallen on.

Asking $40 each, with shipping to US destination included(International shipping has recently increased quite a bit. Will ship overseas, but would need to have additional shipping fee).

I am going to be running a promotion on the Facebook page in about a week where I'll be giving away a $25 merchandise credit for items in Talisman Studios and Talisman Too. This is with the hopes of gaining a larger audience base, and appreciate it if people do Like the page(but only if it is something you have interest in).

Hey Happie- No interest in it, but that Red cam doesn't look like a Kong Slit Fit to me (for starters, Slit Fit had anodized lobes). It is, however, a dead ringer for a Rock Empire Durango (although missing the sling). What's it say on the sticker on the swage?

Thanks for the bump. I still need to dig out and check that cam - it is in my climbing gear duffle, a place I have been not visiting as much as I should....

So, onward as I really need to get cash raised or risk turning into a human raisin in the desert... Am hoping to leave here in time to attend the SushiFest in April, and can use all the work I can get.

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Thank you Joey. This winter I was climbing with someone and realized she was sporting one of them, but I knew I hadn't sold her one... She said she had so many chalkbags and didn't know where this one had come from, but that it was her favorite of them all, because it was a but larger and cinched down.

It seems that elastic cording(and maybe some inner construction details, and maybe that the fleece used on commercial bags might be thinner...) is the key to keeping the chalk inside, and I stumbled upon the winning combination.

I wouldn't mind if commercial makers took note and improved their own bags. Yes, it would cost more, but it seems that non-cinching thing is really annoying to people! Besides, that other construction, where the inner collar is separate from the body lining might actually be part of the problem, and that construction is way more expensive than what I do.

Nature - I hope your sushi bag lasts as long as the memories so many of us have of fantastical SushiFests!

As for the person who has spread the rumor that I turned down work - I asked what had been said and the reply was:

"...offered a job at Coyote Cafe (or maybe some other restaurant in JT?) and turned it down because it was beneath you."

I don't know why someone would say that - where they would even GET the idea, as there are really only a few here even KNOW I have been applying for jobs. But this, along with that whole Veritas.Curat bullshit really stinks. And I will emphatically state that I have NOT refused any work offered to me.

But the reality is that I have a place to go, and am expected to be there in the first week in May. I HAD been looking for work, when my apartment sublet ended, but when it came down to being only a period of three weeks left, I stopped. I couldn't see presenting myself as available for a "permanent" job when I KNEW I would be leaving soon. Does it seem the right thing to anyone here to have someone train a person for a job only to have them quit soon after?

And so I am focusing in what I DO have to offer, which is laid out in the above posts I have made. It IS work, regardless of what mean-spirited people want to consider it. I work VERY hard on what I have to offer. I show up, follow through and have been told outright in so many of the cases that the items are GOOD, and that my service is GOOD, that it is extraodinarily frustrating to have it discounted.

The BS that has been directed at me in the last month, along with my financial downturn, along with my beloved Teddy being sick is a LOT to bear, and I would just ask that person who is so bent on causing me pain to either step back and have a heart, or step forward and say it to my face, or step forward in front of a f*#king bus!

My trailwork crew begins work soon after and believe it or not, they consider me to be am integral part of the team and told me so in exact terms. Considering the bullshit that was said by that veritas person(whose account was deactivated here,and NOT by any action on my part, in case anyone is wondering), and now this "turned down work/beneath her" rumor, that means a LOT to me.

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